Modeling traffic jams in slow axonal transport

Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 445-465

  Kuznetsov, A V ^a   Avramenko, A A ^b   Blinov, D G ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Department of Modeling of Heat Transfer Processes in Energy and Heat Engineering Facilities   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

axons; Molecular motors; motor assisted transport; neurons; slow axonal transport; traffic jams

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958007871     PISSN: 02195194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219519410003502     Document Type: Article

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